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Social media in healthcare: the price of not being there
Spanish chapter of #hcsmeu (hashtag #hcsmeuES) held its first unconference on April 1st in Barcelona. For many it sounds like a convention of freakish fans of some cult science-fiction TV show (a group...
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Emotional roots of prescription: We are not all that rational
I recently stumbled upon a very interesting editorial opinion on ‘European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology’: ‘The use of drugs is not as rational as we believe…but it can’t be! The emotional roots of...
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No surplus: Evidence-based disinvestment
In times of economic downturn, two classic cost-reducing solutions come to mind in the healthcare services industry: reduce offer (give fewer services) or control demand (limit access to healthcare...
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From Surgery to CIO
Surgeons are professionals of action. After all, that’s what we do. We execute a carefully designed plan that involves critical decision-making processes for us and our patients. But that’s not my...
View ArticleA hard innovation day
It was a hard day. Half of it was occupied by an exciting but sometimes nasty task, a selection process for one position as project manager at Hospital Clinico Innovation Unit. Don’t think that I am...
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The bottle rip-off
“Bueno es saber que los vasos nos sirven para beber; lo malo es que no sabemos para qué sirve la sed”. Proverbios y cantares.XLI. Antonio Machado (‘It’s good to know that glasses are what can help us...
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Is medical tourism a growing industry?
I must confess that I have a weakness for medical tourism. Patients have always been ready to go on a pilgrimage to find the world’s leading expert (we call it ‘key opinon leader’ now) hoping to find a...
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Laughter is healthy
I stumble upon the article ‘Laughter: gender-specific variations’ in Revista Clínica Española (‘Spanish Clinical Journal’) and I can’t help thinking about the need of taking this into account to...
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Doctors, not MBAs
It’s been more than five years since Henry Mintzberg released the enlightening book ‘Managers, not MBAs’, a well-reasoned criticism of prevailing management education, that basically revolves around...
View ArticleHappy Slaves
“I doubt that all the philosophy in this world can eradicate slavery; at best it will change its name. I can imagine worse forms of servitude than our own, more insidious forms, that will foster in men...
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